Peter Claydon, Flight Lieutenant in the RAF, nearly
walked in on an SS beating and murder of a British radar technician. A French Nazi collaborator with access to top
secret radar technology and two German thugs were attempting to beat classified
information from the hapless Englishman.
Claydon stumbles upon the scene seconds after the shooting—nearly
getting himself shot—and receives a message from the dying man. The message excites a great deal of interest
in the intelligence community. Then, a
week later, Claydon spots the same French turncoat in the background of a
photograph taken from the body of a Luftwaffe pilot. Being the only person able to recognize this
dangerous traitor, Claydon is assigned the task of assassinating M. Passy. He is then sent back to France in the company
of the daring M. Carnac to locate and eliminate this threat to the secret of that
vital new defensive weapon, radar.
This extraordinary story has an equally extraordinary history. D.M. Crook was the grandfather of the modern day publisher of Pursuit of Passy. He has chosen to offer this magnificent book for free which deeply puzzles this reviewer. It is a noteworthy piece of fiction with intrinsic value and I would have been happy to pay for it. In league with Fredrick Forsythe and Ken Follet, Pursuit of Passy is a great book that deserves commensurate attention.
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